Generalization of nonlinear cyclic pursuit

Automatica

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1954-1960

  Sinha, A ^a   Ghose, D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Autonomous system; Cooperative control; Decentralized control; Multi vehicle formations; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Pursuit problems

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MOBILE AGENTS;

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; COOPERATIVE CONTROL; MULTI-VEHICLE FORMATIONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; PURSUIT PROBLEMS;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 35348853281     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2007.03.024     Document Type: Article

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